Archive for March, 2006

More RSS in Australia

March 31st, 2006

I have posted before regarding the uptake of RSS in Australia. Since that last post, there has not been much more adoption of the technology, news.com.au still doesn’t have it (not even AustralianIT). None of this particularly surprises me, usually we have terrible uptake on good for the consumer developments.
What did surprise me was to […]


GMail’s Keyboard Shortcuts

March 12th, 2006

One of the basic tenents of a good user-interface is learnability or discoverabilty (I’m sure that’s a made-up word.) Everything should be laid out in an easy to learn way. The problem with the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail is exactly this. Every time I want to try and use the keyboard to do something, I […]


Blogging’s Brazil Nuts

March 12th, 2006

It has been said on many occasions that the blogosphere is an echo chamber. Whether it is or not, it generally brings good, new content to the eyes of many. This works because each person with a blog subscribes to a heap of blogs, and they point to interesting things they see. So, given a […]


Zeldman and Wordpress

March 9th, 2006

So, Jeffrey Zeldman has moved his blog from hand-coding everything on the site every day, over to Wordpress. This shows that the Wordpress community is really moving in the right direction with the development. The other news here, that may be overshadowed is that he has also changed from summaries in his RSS feed, to […]


Menu-item Positioning

March 6th, 2006

It’s not something I have read alot about, but I’m sure somewhere there are best practices regarding where is best to place a menu item. It’s pretty clear to me, that moving a menu’s order should be avoided, however I have just noticed an instance where the menu should have been reordered.
In Firefox and IE […]


Fat Cunts

March 5th, 2006

In my book, “Pragmatic Cunts”, I will be covering a number of different styles of cunts. In this case Fat Cunts and at the moment, my best example is Dave Harrington. Dave is the fattest of all time.


Nissan Exa for Sale

March 2nd, 2006

I have a 1987 Nissan Exa with a CA18DET for sale in Toowoomba, Queensland. (Transportable to Brisbane) It does not have a road-worthy cert, nor is it registered.
It’s missing the front bar and has a dent in the front right guard. It has a Microtech MT-8, 14inch alloys and aftermarket muffler. If you are interested […]